Why it’s alright to be an elite bastard 1 Jun 2008 John Pieret’s blog Thoughts in a Haystack has an essay on this that is well worth reading, although I’d rather be called an elite snob than an elite bastard because all Australians are bastards. It’s part of the Carnival of the Elite Bastards #1 at En Tequila es Verdad. General Science Social evolution
Evolution The World according to Genesis: Stuff that grows 1 Jun 200724 Nov 2022 We’re in the third day, and Elohim has made dry land, but no sun or stars or moon. Still, he’s keen to see something growing, so he tells the land to produce, by spontaneous generation as it was later known, “seed bearing plants and plants bearing fruit with their proper… Read More
Book Stephen Hawking and the creation of the universe 4 Sep 201024 Nov 2022 I should begin by saying that I haven’t read Hawking’s book with Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design, and I probably won’t. But the way it is being hyped in the media, social and mainstream, suggests that what he is claiming, which is nothing novel, is that we have finally done… Read More
General Science Classification and the periodic table 19 Dec 201227 Jan 2013 It might be thought that classification in the special and historical sciences is occasionally atheoretical, but that in the general sciences, physics and chemistry, it is derived from Theory. But in fact one of the most exemplary cases of empirical classification that led to Theory is in these sciences: the… Read More
Nobody would ever mistake me for a Pommy Bastard. Well, there was that one time when Cliff Richard’s manager thought I came from South London, but that was a while ago and I’ve Aussied up since…
John, Pharyngulas new star Etha Williams has a fantastic post on The Consolation of Elitism which is well worth pointing to : http://jeanneshade.blogspot.com/2008/05/consolation-of-elitism.html Cheers, Martin
John – your attempt to link to the carnival up there goes to John Pieret’s blog. The Bastard Carnival is here Note that Etha’s post that Martin linked to is part of the same Carnival John W. meant to link to.